Since it's #MSWL day and I intend to open to queries soon (as soon as I finish considering the submissions still in my inbox!), I updated my #MSWL profile: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/th...

you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

A blue graphic with a snowboard and the title it’s all in your head by Sabina Nordqvist with the Kirkus star review “: an extremely slow burn that pays off exponentially

The same slide with a different quote: the sex is super hot. This one features Skyler from my cover sitting at the bottom with her phone and IIH socks.

The same slide with a different quote: a strong debut about characters who meet in the pause between pain and hope. This one has a pill from the cover of my book

The full excerpt: “[A]n extremely slow burn that pays off exponentially. The sex is super hot. Because Skylar and Pike learn early to communicate about pain and limitations, they’re great communicators by the time they do eventually hook up, which makes for some steamy dirty talk. Together they learn that while chronic illness comes with restrictions, their desire for one another does not. A strong debut about characters who meet in the pause between pain and hope.” This one features pike from my cover standing with his cane leaning against the excerpt and a pair of his goggles. At the bottom it says it’s all in your head is out February 10

So honored to share that It’s All In Your Head got a Kirkus Starred Review!! ⭐️

😆 a key moment in Heated Rivalry fits this trope so yes, yes indeed

and then there’s the variation where you’re standing awkwardly in the doorway until your secret hockey boyfriend says, “come stay in my caaaabin, it’s private, we’ll have a great time” and then the nurse comes in and asks if she should be worried you’re going to smother him with a pillow

rambles 🤝 social media

(but also I, too, really ought to occasionally post a thing)

The author and their books: Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of THE TEN PERCENT THIEF and the FLAVOR HACKER Duology The book they'd love for Christmas Le Carré and Le Guin first editions Their favourite reads of 2025 THE WATER OUTLAWS A DROP OF CORRUPTION TREACLE WALKER Their anticipated read of 2026 VIGIL LOVE GALAXY THE PICTURES OF DARPAN RAY

We asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26.

Read the full article: https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more!

https://geni.us/killingspell

Adored #SongSungBlue, especially the performance of Kate Hudson! This movie was so, so unbelievably kind in its handling of the real difficulties faced by low-income families, yet it was woven into this incredibly fun, singable, nostalgic story of Neil Diamond fandom, too. Fantastic.

Kate Hudson in her best performance is as Claire in Song Sung Blue. Jackman did a pretty good Neil Diamond but I loved him for the human side of Mike. A great Christmas movie for us.

Graphic showing Kelsea Yu’s 2025 original publications: Novella: Demon Song published by Titan and Spotify Novelette: Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast produced by Spotify Short Story: “In Our Skin” in Nightmare “Unspoken” in Crepuscular “Deliquescence” in The Deadlands Essay: “Haunting, Haunted” in khoreo “Novella: the Perfect Length for Horror” in HorrorTree

All my awards-eligible 2025 publications!! It’s been a good publishing year. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @crepuscularmag.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @khoreo.bsky.social @horrortree.com for sharing my stories & essays with the world! 🖤🖤🖤

Oh, I have a revision of an earlier novel that I’m sort of playing around with for fun while I REST and wait for notes on another project. Doing okay, in other words!!

You are an INCREDIBLE writer!! 🥺 For the record. (But I know how those writing days feel, too)

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

If you’re someone who doesn’t emote much, Shane is so relatable. The real thought is always the undercurrent, whereas Ilya says the emotional part out loud. But then Ilya never calls him on it, like, “Hey, you said to be honest with each other.” He KNOWS that this IS Shane being open. #heatedrivalry

shane being gobsmacked at ilya calling himself his boyfriend after they professed their love and shane literally mapped out a whole 10 year twelve step plan for them to be together forever like you have to laugh #HeatedRivalry

Two menin winter jumpers are embracing eachother.

Merry Christmas 🎄✨
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#heatedrivalry #gamechangers #romancebook #romancelandia

To add to this - THE MEMORY HUNTERS is not inspired by the Middle Ages. Valerian IV does not wear plate armor. But she does have a sword, is sworn to guard her charge, and went to combat school. And I wrote her specifically to fulfill the princess/knight trope. Sapphically.

There is a cover of the book MAD SISTERS OF ESI. Below it is the text "Award Eligibility". Above it, it says: -The Washington Post: Best SFF Books 2025 -Reactor Magazine: Best Books: Reviewers' Choice - Winner: 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Award

MAD SISTERS OF ESI is eligible for awards this season:

wow apparently it's """"""""unacceptable"""""""" to say "I'm always a slut for maple bars" in a professional context

Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.

“Reiner, 78, was an avuncular public figure through it all … a quietly brilliant force in the industry, producing the kind of intelligent, varied #films no one could have expected from a man audiences once knew best as ‘Meathead’.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... #RIP #RobReiner

I had a friendship (situationship?) just like this one, and I’ve always been grateful to this movie for capturing how it felt. Loved many of his other shows, as well, but this was my personal favorite. RIP, Rob & Michelle.

Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair How do we live whole in a breaking world? It helps to bless what is simply for being. It helps to thank everything for its unbidden everythingness. And still we need help — help holding on to…

“Love the monster breeding inside you and slaughter him
with love.
Love the shipwreck of your body, your mind’s
salted garden…”

Exactly what I needed today. 💕 @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy

www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/10/j...

Crafting an Anti-Colonial Gothic: A Conversation With Author Victor Manibo - Reactor "I couldn’t just swap out the Victorian mansion with a Spanish-era villa without those changes meaning something deeper."

In a new interview with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com discusses Filipino history, "gloomth", and what drew him to gothic horror with his latest novel The Villa, Once Beloved!

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

A white British shorthair cat with a pink nose and blue eyes perches on the top of a bookshelf. Behind him, the wall is a sage green.

Happy #caturday from Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose good opinion once lost is lost forever (except if you give him chin scritches)

The Wind in the Willows illustration by Inga Moore

The “you” of this novella was a heartbreaker. 😭 Pitch perfect!!

Most economists agree that by age 50, you should:
- own at least one magic sword
- get advice from an enchanted bear skull
- be covered by a thin layer of moss & lichen
- disappear into a malevolent fog once a month
- become a creature of myth & legend in the old forest

THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS in "a must-read" debut perfect for fans of Tananarive Due and Johnny Compton.
Tamika Thompson delivers a gripping domestic horror about
motherhood, grief, and the ghosts born of injustice. Learn more about the book here: bit.ly/47EsdEo #EWGC

@anovelescape.bsky.social I truly loved it! 🖤💕💀